a question about green card

[latvian]

Hi there,

I am a permenant resident with a green card. If I applied for a family ties visa to a shcengen country, Sweden, to join my wife there, does that affect my immigration status? I mean does that cost me my green card? I know that Green Cards expires in 6 months but other than that, is there a conflict between the 2 processes?

Best regards.

 

[raevsky]

If I applied for a family ties visa to a shcengen country, Sweden, to join my wife there, does that affect my immigration status?

What is her status there? Are you applying for a permanent status in that country?

Anyway, application itself does not make you any harm. Only when you are granted a permanent status there, and only if you enter Sweden in that status granted to join your wife there, you will have the consequences.
You can safely proceed almost to the end, just do not enter Sweden, and your GC is safe then.

If you enter Sweden in order to establish residency there, your GC may be considered abandoned.

 

[latvian]

What is her status there? Are you applying for a permanent status in that country?

Anyway, application itself does not make you any harm. Only when you are granted a permanent status there, and only if you enter Sweden in that status granted to join your wife there, you will have the consequences.
You can safely proceed almost to the end, just do not enter Sweden, and your GC is safe then.

If you enter Sweden in order to establish residency there, your GC may be considered abandoned.

She is a Swedish. Why does the GC considered abandoned after entering Sweden? What if I went back to the states every 6 months?

Thanks

 

[raevsky]

Why does the GC considered abandoned after entering Sweden?

Only if you get a permanent status in Sweden (equivalent to GC in US). Because you cannot permanently reside in two separate countries at the same time. If you reside permanently in Sweden, you lose permanent status in US.

What if I went back to the states every 6 months?

Even if you go to Sweden just for 1 day to establish your permanent residency there. However, in case you never enter Sweden, nothing to worry about.

 

[raevsky]

Because you cannot permanently reside in two separate countries at the same time

Not to mention, that is the position of US law. Laws of other countries might be different, and some countries (like Canada, at least for several years) allow you to keep their permanent residency if you actually reside in the US.

 

[zplecko]

DV lottery visas (Green Card)

Hi there,

Me and my wife applied for a Green Card lottery program and we received forms from Kentucky to be completed but during that process we got a child so we did not receive forms for the kid. Do I need applie again or is it just enough to copy one of the forms, to complete them and send together with ours? Do I need to inform them abbout the change? And also if I have no one to guarantee for us can I still send completed forms?

thank you.

 

[raevsky]

Do I need applie again or is it just enough to copy one of the forms, to complete them and send together with ours?

That is enough.

Do I need to inform them abbout the change?

If the child is born AFTER you send to KCC the forms where you state the number of children, you need to do that too.